Some games disable multitasking on the Vita?

I finally got around to updating my Vita and I'm already regretting it. Sony seems to have taken out one of my favorite features of the system, which is the multitasking of apps. One of the things I really liked about Vita was how you could pause your game, go out to the home menu and chat with your friends, check out your trophies you need to get, and pull up game guides on the Internet browser. You can't do this anymore. Only one app can be open at a time thanks to the new update.

After installing the update, I've found that if you are in the middle of playing a game and you want to open any other app, it will prompt you that your current game will close. So you can't check what remaining trophies you have during your game, you can't see which friends are online while playing and, what bugs me the most, you can't surf the net for game guides and tips while your current game is running. To me, this is utter BS. We were able to do this before and they removed a perfectly good feature from the system just... because. I can't find any other complaints or explanations online. This is seriously bugging me. Its extremely inconvenient and we know the Vita should be able to do this. I'd really like Sony to fix this issue with the next update.

It definitely wasn't working for me last night. I couldn't open the internet browser or trophies list while playing a game.

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There's always been issues with the browser because of memory constraints, and you can run into issues with a website trying to load too much and be asked to close other applications. But no, nothing has fundamentally changed with how the Vita's operating system works

They updated the vita to give the devs the chance to disable that multitask option if favour of giving the game more resources to work with. All of the old vita games still let you multitask and only some of the new ones don't let you. That being said, that update was put in place like... months ago? why does this thread appear now?

They updated the vita to give the devs the chance to disable that multitask option if favour of giving the game more resources to work with. All of the old vita games still let you multitask and only some of the new ones don't let you. That being said, that update was put in place like... months ago? why does this thread appear now?

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I held off on updating for the last few updates. So I assumed this came with the new update from the past week.

They updated the vita to give the devs the chance to disable that multitask option if favour of giving the game more resources to work with. All of the old vita games still let you multitask and only some of the new ones don't let you. That being said, that update was put in place like... months ago? why does this thread appear now?

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I held off on updating for the last few updates. So I assumed this came with the new update from the past week.

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That certainly explains it. In any case, not all the games have the multitask option disabled and the ones that do, you'll need your console updated to play them so you haven't lost anything from updating.